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It would be fascinating if we had infinitely reconfigurable data center network topologies. Among other things, you could have eg Just In Time network rebalance
by pm90 5y ago
It would be fascinating if we had infinitely reconfigurable data center network topologies. Among other things, you could have eg Just In Time network rebalancers that could add more capacity between nodes that have a lot of traffic between them. The reconfiguration would have to be instant, or at least take less time than the actual data transfer to have any benefits.
- sithadmin 5y agoThings are already moving this direction with adoption of network virtualization solutions and overlays becoming the norm in corporate data centers.
- wmf 5y agoThere has been a bunch of research on reconfigurable optical datacenter networks to do this.
- kjs3 5y agoYou do that virtually, not physically.
- kijiki 5y agoPlexxi tried something along those lines. It was cool, but very expensive, so it didn't really go anywhere.